Educational Leadership:Feedback for Learning:Seven Keys to Effective Feedback - 0 views
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feedback is information about how we are doing in our efforts to reach a goal
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Denise Caparula on 26 Sep 16Good or bad, some kind of information related to student effort needs to be relayed.
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the sooner I get feedback, the better
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What specifically should I do more or less of next time, based on this information?
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What makes any assessment in education formative is not merely that it precedes summative assessments, but that the performer has opportunities, if results are less than optimal, to reshape the performance to better achieve the goal. In summative assessment, the feedback comes too late; the performance is over.
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Although the universal teacher lament that there's no time for such feedback is understandable, remember that "no time to give and use feedback" actually means "no time to cause learning." As we have seen, research shows that less teaching plus more feedback is the key to achieving greater learning. And there are numerous ways—through technology, peers, and other teachers—that students can get the feedback they need.